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Our audiences may be full of jerks and we may fail all the time – but we still love being academics. Why is that? We feel it is time to talk about some of the good things we associate with this role in our society and why being an academic and spending your life in this profession might just be a truly wonderful thing after all.

Episode Reading List

• Yoo, Y., Boland, R. J. J., & Lyytinen, K. (2006). From Organization Design to Organization Designing. Organization Science, 17(2), 215-229.
• Waardenburg, L., Huysman, M., & Sergeeva, A. V. (2022). In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man Is King: Knowledge Brokerage in the Age of Learning Algorithms. Organization Science, 33(1), 59-82.
• Pentland, B. T., Yoo, Y., Recker, J., & Kim, I. (2022). From Lock-in to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing. Organization Science, 33(1), 194-211.
• Seidel, S., Berente, N., Lindberg, A., Lyytinen, K., Martinez, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Video Game Creation: A Framework for the New Logic of Autonomous Design. Journal of Digital Social Research, 2(3), 126-157.
• Berente, N., Gu, B., Recker, J., & Santhanam, R. (2021). Managing Artificial Intelligence. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1433-1450.
• Chapple, M., Stewart, J. M., & Gibson, D. (2021). CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide (9th ed.). Sybex.
• Recker, J., Indulska, M., Green, P., Burton-Jones, A., & Weber, R. (2019). Information Systems as Representations: A Review of the Theory and Evidence. Journal of the Association for InformationSystems, 20(6), 735-786.
• Gerlach, J. P., & Centefelli, R. T. (2022). Overcoming the Single-IS Paradigm in Individual-Level IS Research. Information Systems Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2021.1065
• Sætre, A. S., & van de Ven, A. H. (2021). Generating Theory by Abduction. Academy of Management Review, 46(4), 684-701.
• Salge, C. A. D. L., Karahanna, E., & Thatcher, J. B. (2022). Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter. MIS Quarterly, 46(1), 229-260.
• Davidsson, P., Recker, J., & von Briel, F. (2020). External Enablement of New Venture Creation: A Framework. Academy of Management Perspectives, 34(3), 311-332.
• von Briel, F., Selander, L., Hukal, P., Jarvenpaa, S. L., Yoo, Y., Lehmann, J., Chan, Y. E., Rothe, H., Alpar, P., Fuerstenau, D., & Wurm, B. (2021). Researching Digital Entrepreneurship: Current Issues and Suggestions for Future Directions. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 48(33), 284-304.
• Van de Ven, A. H. (2007). Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research. Oxford University Press.
• Van de Ven, A. H., Polley, D. E., Garud, R., & Venkataraman, S. (2008). The Innovation Journey. Oxford University Press.
• Pentland, B. T., Recker, J., & Wyner, G. (2017). Rediscovering Handoffs. Academy of Management Discoveries, 3(3), 284-301.
• Delbecq, A. L., & Van de Ven, A. H. (1971). A Group Process Model for Problem Identification and Program Planning. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 7(4), 466-491.
• Van de Ven, A. H., & Poole, M. S. (1990). Methods for Studying Innovation Development in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program. Organization Science, 1(3), 313-335.
• Teodorescu, M., Morse, L., Awwad, Y., & Kane, G. C. (2021). Failures of Fairness in Automation Require a Deeper Understanding of Human–ML Augmentation. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1483-1499.
• Lebovitz, S., Levina, N., & Lifshitz-Assaf, H. (2021). Is AI Ground Truth Really “True”? The Dangers of Training and Evaluating AI Tools Based on Experts’ Know-What. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1501-1525.
• van den Broek, E., Sergeeva, A., & Huysman, M. (2021). When the Machine Meets the Expert: An Ethnography of Developing AI for Hiring. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1557-1580.
• Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2005). Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. William Morrow.